My interests and hobbies include driving sports cars (on the street and track), riding dirt bikes, listening to progressive heavy metal, reading fantasy and science fiction novels, collecting comic books, playing Magic: the Gathering, EverQuest (on the Firiona Vie RP server), RTS and car racing video games, and spending time with my friends and family. You can check out my personal web sites, www.bradmcquaid.com and www.sportandtrack.com and of course my company web sites, www.joinvanguard.com, www.sigil.com and www.vanguardsoh.com.
In this life, I've met so many of my heroes -- the guys from Fates Warning, Richard "Lord British" Garriott, Jim Lee (the comic book artist), Raymond Feist, Terry Goodkind, Roger Zelazny, Stan Lee, John Smedley, my dad (obviously), and so many more. Who is left? Probably several more... maybe some of the people I look up to religously or politically. And then there's all the people I'll meet in the next life and get a LOT of questions answered -- Enoch, Tolkien, and CS Lewis, look out!
I like progressive heavy metal (Fates Warning, Dream Theater), progressive hard rock (Enchant), neo-classical fusion (Yngwie Malmsteen, Vinnie Moore), jazz-rock fusion (Al DiMeola), lights out jazz (T-Square, Spyro Gyra), and Baroque Classical (Bach, Vivaldi).
My favorite movie of all time is the Usual Suspects, but I really like science fiction, action, drama, and comedy. Way of the Gun is up there, as is Office Space, Empire Strikes Back, A Fish Called Wanda, a Time to Kill, and many more (although I do consider myself picky).
Alias (RIP), 24, Smallville, Stargate: SG1, Stargate: Atlantis, Battlestar Galactica, Enterprise (RIP), the new Doctor Who (please come back!), Numbers, motocross, supercross, and motogp, and just about anything on the military channel.
My favorite genre is fantasy, including Tolkien, Zelazny, Moorcock, Feist, Goodkind, CS Lewis, and many more. I also appreciate some science fiction, and older Tom Clancy stuff.
God, my Dad, Keith Parkinson, CS Lewis, JRR Tolkien, Ursula K. LeGuin, Roger Zelazny, Jim Lee, Winston Churchill, Richard Garriott..."We have come from God, and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain error, will also reflect a splintered fragment of the true light, the eternal truth that is with God. Indeed, only by myth-making, only by becoming a 'sub-creator' and inventing stories, can Man aspire to the state of perfection that he knew before the Fall. Our myths may be misguided, but they steer however shakily towards the true harbor, while materialistic "progress" leads only to a yawning abyss and the Iron Crown of the power of evil." -- J.R.R Tolkien